Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.
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| Description | Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below. | |
| Title | Heap buffer overflow in gawk | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CERT-PL
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-13T13:01:29.711Z
Reserved: 2026-04-13T14:44:55.647Z
Link: CVE-2026-40468
Updated: 2026-07-13T13:01:26.495Z
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Updated: 2026-07-13T14:30:16Z
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